Religion is a field of the teaching on which people try to find how to gain real happiness or how to escape from suffering and try to find truth. People need a religion because they want to escape from sufferings such as age, sickness, death and they want to live in a happy state where no age, sickness and death exist.
How do we choose a religion? We choose a religion in global, not in local sense. Religion is not in our village, not in our township, not in our state, nor in our country but in the Universe and in ourselves.
True religious teaching is not in people but in a true teaching among people. People do things such as killing, stealing, becoming intoxicated, sexual misconduct, telling lies, inventing things what is harmful for the destroying of beings. But others again do excellent things such as walking on the moon, inventing electricity which is useful for the benefit of the people. No! A strong animal or a god can overcome people’s brain. So, people are stupid as well as intelligent. The true religious teaching as well as false religious teaching can find in people. But no two truths can exist in this world but only one. Which one? The one which can save all life and bring real happiness and can solve the problems of age, sickness, and death is the only truth.
Let's look at the election of a president in the United States. The ordinary people don't know how to elect a right one. They just know the one who can do well for the economy. But the senators know who has the real ability to govern the country for benefit of it's citizens. For example, children would love someone who gives them those cakes, toys, etc. But they don't like the one who admonishes them or punishes them.
In North Korea and Africa, there are a lot of people who don't have enough food, clothes, shelter. So, If Jesus Christ or Allah, or any other God give them what they need, they would love and follow the one who can help them and give them what they need. But when these people have enough things in their life, they still have the problem of age, sickness, death and try to escape from these sufferings and try to find the answer to sufferings and eternal happiness. At this time, they would love and follow a teaching which can explain or solve these natural unavoidable problems.
For instance there are three doctors who try to cure a sick man. The first doctor says to the sick man that there are no medicines and nothing could be done to heal his sickness. Then the sick man is disappointed by the doctor's words and might die.
The second doctor says to the sick man that the symptom of the sick is not a serious one. It would be healed soon. Actually, the doctor isn't aware of the symptom of the sickness. He is just comforting the sick man. Finally the sick man might die.
The final doctor knows both the symptom of sickness and the mental condition of the sick man. So he says to the sick man that the disease will be healed soon and not to worry. Then he cures the sick man and the disease is no longer there. So, the moral of this story is; it is best to elect and follow what the final doctor instructs so that the disease would be very soon healed.
Only Buddhist teaching can explain about Nibbāna which is ultimate peace without sickness, age and death. A great scientist ALBERT EINSTIN said, “If there is any religion that could cope with modern scientific needs it would be Buddhism.
Written By Thaw Ma
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